OT- New Toshiba DVD Player

Jeff9329 wrote on 8/18/2008, 2:15 PM

Toshiba just announced a new upscaling DVD player. Yeah I know, you are probably going to get sick just hearing that word. But at least maybe they will actually introduce something worth bashing.

http://emailmg.startlogic.com/atmail/parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.betanews.com%2Farticle%2FToshiba_Not_HDDVD_HD_DVD%2F1219078360

I bet it will also play 3X DVD discs.

I doubt they will support BD-5 or 9 since they are bound to be bitter about Blu-Ray

Comments

craftech wrote on 8/18/2008, 6:03 PM

Sounds like a good idea since as I said last winter DVD won the format war. We have an HD-A1, HD-A3, and a Playstation 3. Hands down the first gen HD DVD player (HD-A1) does the best job at upconverting overall (given a decent disc to begin with of course). The price sounds a little high though for the player in that article. I guess we have to wait for the first review.

John

johnmeyer wrote on 8/18/2008, 6:55 PM

I simply want a DVD player that will play any round shiny object that I insert, no matter what it has on it. DVD, SVCD XVCD VCD, MP3, diVx, xvid, Quicktime, WAV, CD audio, JPEG photos, hi-def on DVD (I forget what that's called), etc.

I saw the announcement of the Toshiba and a description of the side-by-side demo with existing up-res'ing players and it sounded good for that, but I'm only interested if it can play pretty much any media file I put on a disc.

I'd buy that.

Terje wrote on 8/18/2008, 7:30 PM

Not fully there yet, but the PS3 will play almost anything you insert into its slot

R0cky wrote on 8/19/2008, 9:47 AM

What about SACD, DVD-Audio, and WMVHD?

I'm returning a Phillips DVD player I just got that claimed to do DivX Ultra but apparently will only do SD DivX even though it up rez'z to 1080p/HDMI from std DVDs. I encoded using botht he 720HD and 1080HD profiles in my DivX encoder and I get a message on the player that the resolution is not supported.

johnmeyer wrote on 8/19/2008, 10:25 AM

When shopping for a DVD player, this resource sometimes helps:

Videohelp DVD Player Database

Enter the brand and/or model number of your player, and you will usually find reports from several other users as to what it can and cannot play. Since this is from the "unwashed masses," the reports are not always accurate, but if there are enough reports, you can usually tell whether a given player will do what you want, or not.